A Glimmer of Hope for Europe

Srdja Trifkovic

In spite of some decades of relentless multiculturalist indoctrination and "Religion of Peace" propaganda, an "overwhelming majority" of Europeans believe immigration from Islamic countries is a threat to their traditional way of life, a major new survey revealed on January 23.

Prepared for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in collaboration with Georgetown University, "Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue" was -- according to the official press release -- a pioneering attempt "to provide a systematic and thorough overview of how Muslim and Western societies perceive and relate to each other at the political, social, economic and cultural levels." In spire of their evident bias in favor of intensified dialogue, interaction, mutual understanding etc, the report's authors admit that

majorities in populations around the world . . . share a great deal of pessimism about the state of the relationship. Among both Muslim majority and non-Muslim majority nations, the proportion who say they think the 'other side' is committed to better relations rarely rises above a minority of 30%.

The poll reported that "a severe deficit of trust is found between the Western and Muslim communities," with most non-Muslims wanting as little to do with the Muslim world as possible. Specifically referring to Britain, the study showed that political leaders who preach the benefits of open immigration were "dangerously out of touch with the public." It reports "a growing fear among Europeans of a perceived Islamic threat to their cultural identities, driven in part by immigration from predominantly Muslim nations . . . An overwhelming majority of the surveyed populations in Europe believe greater interaction between Islam and the West is a threat."

It is noteworthy that Muslim immigration is said to breed "a growing fear" -- which implies an irrational, emotional response to a "perceived" threat, rather than a normal response stemming from experiential learning. It is on par with reporting, 75 years ago, "a growing fear among Jews of a perceived Nazi threat to their cultural identity." The authoritative and presumably well-paid analysts advising the Davos "community" refrain from assessing the validity of this perception. They also pass no judgment on the fact that Europeans "believe" that interaction is undesirable. They choose, yet again, to present this "belief" as irrational: most Europeans reject "interaction" (a word with positive connotations) because they see it as a "threat" (a word with negative connotations denoting an emotional response).

It takes a brave man, in today's Britain dominated by three social-democratic parties (Labour, Conservative, and Lib-Dems), to draw the obvious conclusion. Tory MP David Davies -- who is now even more certain to go on lingering on the back benches -- is one of them. He told the Sunday Express: "I am not surprised by these findings. People are fed up with multiculturalism and being told they have to give up their way of life. Most people in Britain expect anyone who comes here to be willing to learn our language and fit in with us." Mr Davies, who serves on the Commons Home Affairs Committee, added:

People do get annoyed when they see millions spent on translating documents and legal aid being given to people fighting for the right to wear a head-to-toe covering at school. A lot of people are very uncomfortable with the changes being caused by immigration and politicians have been too slow to wake up to that.

The report says people have little enthusiasm for "greater understanding with Islam." That is a sure sign that they are gaining greater understanding OF Islam. "Understanding with Islam" may happen only in those societies fortunate enough not to have any interaction with Islam.

The report also says that attempts to improve relations between Muslims living in Europe and the non-Muslim majority have been "disappointing." That was entirely predictable, however. It is utterly impossible ab initio for pious Muslims to have normal, harmonious relations with non-Muslims, relations based on mutual respect and the acceptance of the legitimacy of non-Muslim beliefs, lifestyles, and institutions. Most Muslims in Europe live in a parallel universe that has very little to do with the host country. Overwhelmingly they feel nothing but contempt for the liberal concept of "tolerance" and "diversity." If not overtly hostile, their attitude to the host-society is disdainful and filled with contempt.

The Muslim response to the Davos report was a mixture of lies and distortions -- the good, old taqiyya. Baroness Haleh Afshar, OBE, of York University, blamed media "hysteria" for the findings. She admitted that there is an absence of trust towards Muslims, but that is

very much driven by an uninformed media. To blame immigration is much harder because the current influx of immigrants from eastern Europe are by-and-large not Muslim. The danger is that when people are fearful of people born and bred in this country it is likely that discrimination may follow.

Presumably it would betray a discriminatory mindset to point out to the good Baroness of Heslington that all four "Yorkshire lads" who blew up themselves and 52 other people on the London Underground on July 7, 2005, were Muslims "born and bred in this country" [i.e. Britain]. But translated from taqiyya-speak into plain English, Dr. Afshar said the following:

"Absence of trust towards Muslims" should be recognized as not only abnormal but also inherently discriminatory and therefore illegal response of non-Muslims to the Jihadist threat. Accordingly, "absence of trust" needs to be rectified by (a) an even more relentless "Religion of Peace" indoctrination; and (b) legislative criminalization.

As a first step, further legal restraints should be imposed on media reporting of Islamic terrorism and Jihad activism, so as to counter anti-Muslim "hysteria" and turn "an uninformed media" into "well-informed," i.e. Sharia-compliant media.

There is no Muslim problem, but there is prejudice against immigration per se -- which is equally reprehensible, and therefore worthy of .

One task of the reformed media will be to teach the native public that Muhammads, Yusufs and Sabahuddins listening to their favorite imams in Leicester and Leeds on Friday nights are no more a threat to their way of life, or to their life itself, than Polish plumbers, Russian tycoons, or Moldovan prostitutes.

It is a sure bet that the European union nomenklatura in Brussels and its subsidiary organs in the member-countries' nominal capitals will take Dr. Afshar's recommendations to heart. They don't need any prodding, having spent close to seven years since 9-11 indoctrinating their subject-populations into believing that the migration of tens of millions of Muslims into Europe and the Old Continent's subsequent demographic shift in favor of Islamic aliens is actually a blessing that enriches the natives' culturally deprived and morally unsustainable societies.

The elite class has a number of mandatory political documents and enforcement tools to guide the enforcers, starting with the European Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation N° 1162 (19 September 1991) on "the contribution of the Islamic civilization to European culture." A giant step forward was made a decade later, in the "General policy recommendation n° 5: Combating intolerance and discrimination against Muslims" issued by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. This "recommendation" could have been written by Baroness Afshar:

It emphasized "Islam's positive contribution to the continuing development of European societies, of which it is an integral part."

It expressed concern that "religious intolerance towards Islam" was still strong in Europe.

It warned that "this prejudice may manifest itself in different guises, in particular through negative general attitudes."

The E.U. Commission Against Racism and Intolerance then came to the point, and called on the Union's member states to adopt legally binding measures that would counter such negative tendencies. These measures, if and when applied, will effectively outlaw any serious debate about Islam and introduce pro-Muslim "affirmative action" that would far exceed some of the worst excesses of similar programs in the United States. The E.U. body call on the member countries:

To impose sanctions in cases of discrimination on grounds of religion [i.e. to prosecute those who “inaccurately" claim that Islam may be a threat];

To remove "unnecessary legal or administrative obstacles [i.e. planning and zoning permits, local authority and neighborhood approvals] to the construction of sufficient numbers of appropriate places of worship for the practice of Islam" [i.e. as many mosques as Muslims want, where they want them, of whatever size, shape, or form];

To ensure that public institutions make provision in their everyday practice for cultural and other requirements of the Muslim community [i.e. taxpayer-funded prayer rooms facing Mecca and foot baths in state schools, public offices, hospitals, prisons, barracks . . . ];

To prevent discrimination on religious grounds regarding access to citizenship [i.e. to speed up naturalization of Muslims resident in Europe regardless of an EU country's formal requirements, such as taking an oath of allegiance odious to Muslims];

To eliminate any discrimination on grounds religion in access to education [i.e. allow hijabs and burqas in taxpayer-funded classrooms . . . where crosses are banned];

To legislate against religious discrimination in employment and at the workplace [i.e. set aside a quota of positions that will be filled by Muslims regardless of ability or of the availability of better qualified non-Muslim candidates];

To encourage employers to devise and implement "codes of conduct" to combat religious discrimination and "to work towards the goal of workplaces representative of the diversity of the society in question" [i.e. fire or demote non-Muslim employees who see Islam as a threat, and introduce "affirmative action" programs for Muslims];

To prevent "discrimination of Muslims connected with social exclusion" [which means inviting them to company picnics, and instructing employees to bring them to parties and social events, provided -- of course -- that no alcohol or pork are served, and that men and women are rigorously segregated];

To pay special attention to the situation of Muslim women "who may suffer both from discrimination against women in general and that against Muslims" [but paying attention to their Kuranically-mandated abuse by their husbands is verboten];

To modify curricula to prevent "distorted interpretations of religious and cultural history" and "portrayal of Islam on perceptions of hostility and menace" [which is already happening in Britain, with Muslim activists approving state school textbooks dealing with Islam];

To ensure that religious instruction in schools respects cultural pluralism and make provision for teacher training to this effect;

To raise awareness among the population of those areas where particular care is needed to avoid social and cultural conflict [i.e. more vigorous indoctrination];

To encourage debate in the media on the image which they convey of Islam and on their responsibility to avoid perpetuating prejudice and bias [again, pure Dr. Afshar];

To provide for the monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of all measures to combat intolerance and discrimination against Muslims [Orwell].

The diligence with which individual E.U. member countries translate this appalling list into national legislation, and the instances of "Islamophobia" all over the Union, are being tracked by the Vienna-based European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. The Centre routinely refers to "institutional Islamophobia" as an inherent social and cultural sickness of most European societies that needs to be rooted out by education, re-education, and legislation. The rampant insanity emanating from Brussels grows more unrestrained with each new terrorist plot or attack, resulting in calls for more understanding of the "underlying causes" of terrorism (racism, Iraq, poverty, "fear," discrimination, etc, etc etc.) and the insistence on greater inclusiveness and more stringent anti-Islamophobic legislation.

An ideological commitment to neoliberal globalization has turned multiculturalism and effectively open-ended Third World (overwhelmingly Muslim) immigration into two inviolable Euro-dogmas. The result is the inherent inability of Brussels and its post-national subsidiaries to defend Europe from the threat of Jihad. Cynically defeatist, self-absorbed and unaccountable to anyone but their own corrupt class, the Eurocrats are just as bad as jihad's fellow-travelers; they are its active abettors and facilitators.

"Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue" indicates that their job is far from done, which is excellent news. They preach death, and it is up to the millions of normal people in the Western world to stop the madness. The traitor class wants them to share its death wish, to self-annihilate as people with a historical memory and a cultural identity, and to make room for the monistic Utopia spearheaded by the Jihadist fifth column. That crime can and must be stopped. The founders of the Old Republic overthrew their colonial rulers for offenses far lighter than those of which the Jihad-enabling traitor class is guilty.

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